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Portrait of Margaret Malcolm

Maker

(artist)
1756-1823

Title

Portrait of Margaret Malcolm

Date of Production

around 1795-1803

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 75.9 cm (canvas)
Width: 63.5 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1947.LF.334

Mode of Acquisition

Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

Margaret Pasley (or Paisley) was born in 1742. Aged nineteen, she married George Malcolm, a portrait of whom is also in The Courtauld Gallery collection. They had seventeen children: of their ten sons, four became knights, including Admiral Sir Pultney who was Napoleon's warden during his exile on St Helena. Margaret is depicted wearing a dormeuse or French night cap, a type of bonnet that was especially fashionable in the 1770s.

Provenance

Lee Bequest 1947

Exhibition History

The Gilbert, Courtauld and Wernher Collections, London & England, 07/01/1998-03/02/1998

Chequers, England, 1983-85

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